From: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: GRUB 0.5.92 is released Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:05:22 -0400
> Last I knew it supports only FAT16, not FAT32. Yes, FAT32 is not supported yet. I know there is an unofficial patch for it, so GRUB will support it in the future... > This was necessary with earlier versions of GRUB, but I believe that it no > longer matters. To put /boot/grub/stage2 past cylinder 1024, you might > need to use the new stage1_lba as your stage1. But I believe that GRUB's > stage2 (which reads everything else but stage1 and stage2) can now access > large disks without restriction. Exactly. stage1_lba is undocumented, but it works almost the same way as the normal stage1. Be careful that stage1_lba supports _only_ LBA mode. You cannot use it for any drive that does not support LBA (i.e. floppy). Thanks, OKUJI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ^o-o^ http://duff.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~okuji (in English) m /
